It’s hard to believe we will return to 95 per cent attendance at the workplace in my lifetime, says Tim Harford for the Financial Times.
to under-appreciated data releases or obscure supply-chain trackers. This year, co-host Amanda Aronczyk revealed that her Valentine would be for ... the office. She loved the camaraderie of office life.
As love letters go, it was bittersweet. At the beginning of the day, Aronczyk was “walking down the street like a boss with my box of a dozen Valentine-themed doughnuts” looking forward to the cheers from her colleagues at Planet Money’s small office in midtown Manhattan.. At the day’s end, she sounded deflated as she stashed six uneaten doughnuts in the freezer before heading home.
In the first wave of the pandemic, that figure jumped to more than 60 per cent before quickly ebbing. But what is striking is that the number has plateaued at levels that would have seemed unimaginable before the pandemic. In January 2021, more than 35 per cent of paid working days were from home. By January 2022 - after a spectacular vaccine roll out and the infection of a large proportion of the United States population - 33 per cent of days were still worked from home. That number stayed around 30 per cent throughout last year before dipping to 27 per cent in the survey for January.for a new year. Either way, even 27 per cent is a radical shift from the 5 per cent of 2019.
Data from the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics, while not directly comparable, suggests a similar picture: between 30 and 40 per cent of workers say they’ve worked from home “in the past seven days”, and there is little sign of that number falling. It is hard to believe that we will return to 95 per cent attendance at the workplace in my lifetime.? Some people still fear infection, but for most, the change reflects a lasting shift in how we view remote and hybrid working.
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